that is the milton that ran for the governing body that henny and i david chiu have the honor of serving on -- or i had the honor of serving on the local democratic party and he wanted to do that whether we want to call them transparent, accountable, progressives and still maintain a majority on that body, but there is another story i want to tell you which is in his relentless quiet fighting way milton was a real brave hero. we were going to have -- this is 14 months ago, a very close vote on the democratic central committee. i can say it now because the mayor has left and we were counting votes and we realized it was going to go -- there were 33 members of this body, and we realize it was going to be within a vote or two and milton was struggling and leaving nothing to chance called abbey and said "come on order" and making sure i left nothing to chance i brought his ninth grade teacher and milton was more or less present and he insisted he was coming to the meeting that wednesday evening and we insisted he needed to make his wishes known. he was independent and he said i'm going to at